A New Project Finished!
Last Friday, I typed the words "THE END" into a new young adult manuscript that I've been working on for most of the past year. I started it at the…
Last Friday, I typed the words "THE END" into a new young adult manuscript that I've been working on for most of the past year. I started it at the…
Interview with author Katherine Locke about writing historical fiction and time travel, publishing with a small press, and the art of book promotion.
Announcing the 8th Annual YA Discovery Contest from Regina Brooks at Serendipity Literary Agency. No synopsis, no problem. Here's what she's looking for.
Release day for the Amnesty International co-sponsored Three Balls of Wool (Can Change the World), a picture book of a refugee family in their new home.
Authors and editors of books for young people discuss different forms of censorship and how to defend diverse books in a panel organized by PEN America.
With the revocation of DACA, The U.S. government has just precipitated a humanitarian crisis, and the whole world is watching.
Recapping a panel at the American Library Association annual conference on translated literature for teens and a recommendation of a timely translation.
The importance of #ownvoices authors and their literature of witness for a new generation of African-American teens as we confront a nation in crisis.
Remembering how YA literature changed after the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 and why we may still have weighty books about diversity and #resistance today.
Twelve books for preteen and teen readers that portray young people as political activists in the U.S. and throughout the world in the 20th century.